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Saturday, July 04, 2009
Political lessons
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I often get asked to provide an overview of my political ideas. There are so many elements to my ideas -- the importance of coercion and se...
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Ice rockets earthside
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It pulls hundreds of times the g's over far less time than what I had in mind , but I do seem to have helped inspire Lenape Fire Turtle ...
Monday, June 08, 2009
The collectible premium
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In the comments section of yet another economics professor's blog, Devin Finbarr makes some excellent observations regarding the collec...
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Thursday, June 04, 2009
Exceeding authority under a castle law
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Here's a good video lesson on the difference between legal defense of people within a dwelling and murder in a castle doctrine state. ...
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Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Sotomayor, Calabresi, and the Chief Justice at our moot court
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Our 2006 moot court competiton at The George Washington University featured Chief Justice John Roberts, law & economics guru Judge Guid...
Friday, May 22, 2009
Futarchy: an experiment we'd learn a great deal from, but please don't try it on me
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Mencius Moldbug and Robin Hanson are debating Robin's intriguing idea of "futarchy", which has attracted many fans. The basi...
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
What caused the birth of agriculture and the industrial revolution?
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Robin Hanson asks , "what key features make this [human] growth groove possible?" -- two key events being the birth of agriculture...
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Political property and the evolution of liberty
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A "liberty" (Latin libertatis or freedom) in the king's courts of medieval Europe usually referred something very different t...
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Paradoxes resolved (mostly)
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A paradox is usually just a good reductio ad absurdum , or what mathematicians call a proof by contradiction. The paradox serves to dispro...
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Thursday, May 07, 2009
Liar-resistant government
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I have extensively explored the technological codification of certain aspects of law -- law that is "smart" as in "smart weap...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2009
Separation of powers and credible commitment
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Douglass North and Niall Ferguson, among other historians, have observed the dramatic lowering of English government bond rates after the Gl...
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